Just regular folks.

Of course almost immediately after I wrote about my wonderful progress on my sock, I realized that I spent a whole row knitting my purl stitches and purling my knit stitches! Arg! So I spent a great deal of time undoing the row and trying to pick up these tiny, tiny loop and all this resulted in dropped stitches and twisted stitches, so I had to learn how to fix dropped stitches and how to knit and purl though the back of the stitch and fix it all. Now it’s fine and I’m happily knitting away again. This weekend was a weekend of cooking and eating. Yesterday, we didn’t go anywhere, we just went to our mall and got some simple groceries. Today we took the subway and the bus to a fancy, expat suburb called Holland Village and found the fancy, expat grocery store and since it wasn’t in downtown the isles were wide and it wasn’t very crowded. We bought all the ingredients for a few night’s dinner. Edda fell asleep on the taxi ride home.

Posting this for my mom and also for my secret pal.. I’m making slow but steady progress on my sock, I’m excited to see the striping from the yarn and now I’ve knitted enough to know that the ribbing will stretch enough to accomodate my ankle. Woo hoo, I’m pretty excited!

I want to be in NY now – not because Vince loved his school there and Jeremy’s parents were close by and I had a car and knew where to find all the ingredients to any recipe I’d like to cook – but I miss it at this moment because I’m missing the apple season there. (Twenty different kinds of apples at a roadside stand.) They only sell Fuji apples here. Only one kind of freaking apple! I guess I should switch to durian, ugh! I’m also missing this famous, famous, wool festival in Rhinebeck this weekend. I’ve known about it the whole time I lived right around the corner, but I wasn’t knitting then, only now. Oh well, I guess it will still be there whenever I get the chance to go back.

On Thursday, Mathilda and Julia came over for lunch. I made a smashing chef salad for the adults in the party – with blue cheese, ham, eggs and ranch dressing. Then we headed over to the Choa Chu Kang pool and had a good time there despite the occasional rain shower. The pool was pretty empty except for a group of school children. Then the kids came back to our place and we ordered pizza for dinner and everyone had a good time until we had to go to bed.

Today we went to Kate’s house and saw all the cool stuff for the baby. A changing table, a crib and scads of beautiful girl baby clothes! Vince ate all her potato chips. When we left, it was pouring, pouring rain and we all got soaked. We met Jeremy at Causeway Point and had dinner at the Crystal Jade and I headed home, I am wiped out from these past two days and Jeremy and Vince went to pick up Vince’s computer.

I broke fast yesterday by going over to Arif’s house and eating a nice meal cooked by his wife, Tahera. We had a pretty simple meal – spicy daal, kabob meat, salad and pita bread. It’s funny watching Arif and Tahera together. Arif’s become very very domesticated. He was actaully like cleaning! What a change!

Oh yeah, btw, so I got them the milkshake maker, the one you guys vetoed. Sorry but Arif wouldn’t have appreciated the handheld mixer. He told me as much too. He wants your guys address so he can send you a thank you note. 😛

Choon and his parents came by around 9. Choon and Pei-Sun gave them a nice stainless steel coffee maker to go along with the stainless steel milkshake maker. so pretty much Arif is commit to the stainless steel motif.

I have to say that having a Mac rocks in certain applications.. I’ve been involved with Choon’s wedding slideshow in iMovie and now, I’m transferring his video into iDVD and burning that also. It’s great. works well. easy to use. His video was about 4 minutes too long for the DVD. I had to cut some things out, but by the look of it. it’s going to take at least 3-4 hours to render onto the DVD. sigh.

Things at work are picking up. We’ve got to stress test our storage system by the end of the month, and I just swtiched onto this part of the project. We haven’t done any real tests yet…. so uh. we need to get started. We’re supposed to give the yea or nay on this particular storage solution by then. yeah right. 😛

I’m starting to play tennis some more. It’s been a long time. I really need some new shorts now that I think about it. My pants keep falling off.. sigh.

Had a nice time with Mathilda today. I am too exhausted to type. Will write more later.

Just your standard Wednesday. Vince and Edda have been getting up really early these past few days. Edda especially has gotten up at 5:30 am for 2 days straight and I’m hoping that since she ate a lot today that she will fall asleep and stay asleep all night.

My piano lessons are going well. I’m trying to play faster and more evenly, even when I’m alternating between my ring finger and pinky. I tend to play one note faster than the other and the resulting uneveness throws off my whole rythmn.

The ice cream sundae that Vince picked out. We all shared, I ate most of it, Vince ate the whipped cream and Edda just sampled. Everything got dirty.

I had a really nice day with the kids today. We went downtown to the Raffles City Shopping Center and hung out there for a few hours. I really just needed to go to the gourmet grocery store there and pick up some raviolis and salsa. I asked 4 people in the grocery store where the salsa or the Mexican section of the store was and every single one of them said that they didn’t have such a thing in the store. Of course, after walking around for about 15 minutes, we found the huge section of salsa, chili peppers, taco shells, tortillas… etc. Got the salsa! Yah!

Then Vince, Edda and I hunkered down to enjoy our pizza lunch (basement level) and ice cream (2nd floor). I usually get all anxious that Vince is going to make a mess or is going to need to pee or that Edda will scream her head off. I’m always trying to hurry the kids to finish, but it’s not as if I have to rush to do something else. So I tried to calm myself down and I think it worked OK, I sat back and watched the ice cream melt and chocolate sauce being smeared and I think I did a good job not getting too wound up about it – all while well-dressed people having business meetings or well-dressed tourists surrounded us, the messy people as Vince calls us occasionally.

well… okay powerpoint is back up… laff. later.

So I cast on 64 stitches and split them on 3 needles making sure the “ends” of the cast on were in the center of one of the needles, but after a few rows, I noticed that I have this weird “step funtion” where the ends meet. Is this suppose to happen, or did I just not make the stitches snug enough?